You may remember Edmondson as the creator of the Beware the Believers viral video — he took a little time to immortalize a recent event.
Richard Dawkins gets lucky in this one.
Randy Pausch, 23 October 1960-25 July 2008
The president of Baylor, John M. Lilley, was fired abruptly yesterday. He demonstrated insufficient dedication to their “faith mission”, so of course he had to go. I’m sure the ID crowd will be pleased — by encouraging a stronger “Christian vision”, the next president of the university will probably encourage more Intelligent Design nonsense…which, of course, is an entirely secular concept that is not reliant on faith or Christian visions. Right.
I also have to say that this diagram accompanying the commentary is spot on.
We were supposed to have a new edition of the Tangled Bank this week, at the Blue Collar Scientist — but has more serious real-life issues with which to contend, so unsurprisingly it has not made it up yet, and I haven’t heard back from my email query. If I don’t hear anything by this afternoon, I’ll put something together myself — no blame to the BCS, of course, and please do give him your support.
Most of you haven’t seen Sizzle, but there is one global warming denier in the movie who is a wonderfully strange character, Dr Chilingar. He is interestingly idiosyncratic, but the movie didn’t really pursue his views very far…but Tim Lambert has. Chilingar is guilty of comparing CO2 over billions of years to human CO2 over centuries and using formulas that assume greenhouse effects don’t change to argue that greenhouse gases will have no effect.
<hack> <hack> Excuse me, I had a little cough.
How sad. I no longer have the lead headline at Spirit Daily: I’ve been bumped by WORRIES ON POTTER BEAR OUT IN AN EXPLOSION OF TEEN WITCHCRAFT. How fickle these Catholics are, and how easily they are frightened by imaginary concerns.
(By the way, Spirit Daily is one of the best places to go if you want to see spiritual wackaloonery — they glean the web for the craziest stuff.)
Regular commenter Patricia sent me a present — isn’t this pretty?
The octopus pendant is also very nice. You can get your own at the Emerson Glass Art Studio, if you’re envious.
Thanks, Patricia! I will get it away from my cervical model someday, I’m sure.
P.S. All you happy Minnesotans should be pleased to hear that Roy will be in Minneapolis on 1-4 September. I’ll be sure to put up details as they become available.
